Dave 'Doc' Corio wrote: > As a side note, I loaded XUBUNTU on it, and it worked. It took > five minutes to open an application, but it worked! It even recognized > the Ethernet adapter! It just wasn't worth investing any money in at > this stage.
Xbuntu is pretty good at that.. But you are right, I went down the "salvage an old laptop" path and ended up with an eee 900A from bestbuy for $149 with a gig of ram, flash drive, the whole ball of wax. Loaded eeebuntu, and I love it. I'd have spent $100+ on old ram just to get to 512. While I can add a 2nd gig to the eee for $29 or so. If you want XP, microcenter has hp mini's refurbs with 1.6g intel atom, a gig of ram, etc for $229. Full sized keyboard, which is my only nit with the eee's. Or you can get the eee with XP for not much more. Have fun, Alan km4ba
